Drone journalism and activism

Journalists and activists are increasingly using unmanned aerial vehicles, otherwise known as drones, to assist them with investigations. Police in Turkey recently shot down a drone being used to view what was going on at a protest. Another was used outside the hospital Nelson Mandela was being treated in. But what might this mean for privacy, ethics and safety in our skies?

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crank :

10 Jan 2014 1:32:54pm

We are, of course, more used to drones as instruments of Yankee death-lust, overwhelming killing, innocents and bystanders, or attacking rescuers in Satanic second strikes, or targeting the consequent funerals. And we know that Yankee homicidal fervour is open-ended, something, undoubtedly, to do with a perverse death worship resulting from existential terror and denial of death (these psychoses are most marked in the elites, needless to say, and reach their horrendous apotheosis in the denial of the unfolding ecological catastrophe, by means of which the doomed robopaths of ruling capitalist elites will be avenged on the still living and those yet unborn). Drones will proliferate in our last few decades, maybe even becoming orbital and sub-orbital, and massacres from on high will only intensify-it's the nature of The Beast. Drones as tools of the Rightwing MSM will fulfill the same purpose as pens, cameras, telephones etc-to spread propaganda to the benefit of the ruling capitalist elite, who will require prodigies of brainwashing from their MSM droogs as the rabble begin to wake to their fate and that of their children. Of course real journalists and non-MSM will discover new truths, new horrors, new elite lies from the use of drones, but that information will be, as now, suppressed and ignored. In time, as social discontent grows, these alternative sources will be decreed 'terrorists' and ruthlessly suppressed, as Aljazeera used to be (ie with Yankee bombs) before Qatar 'got with the program'.